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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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besides, it was such a pity that Lydia should be taken from a regiment where she was acquainted with everybody, and had so many favourites.
she had been unjust, inattentive, nay, almost unkind, to her Elinor;
— that Marianne's affliction, because more acknowledged, more immediately before her, had too much engrossed her tenderness, and led her away to forget that in Elinor she might have a daughter suffering almost as much, certainly with less self-provocation, and greater fortitude.
Some one was talking there in a very loud accent; he did not know the voice —more than talking— almost hallooing.
the necessity of making his own wife and sister-in-law acquainted with the business without delay; though, on Fanny's account, he almost dreaded the effect of the communication to Mrs. Norris as much as Fanny herself. He deprecated her mistaken but well-meaning zeal.